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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as art-practice)
avg rating 3.96 — 121,540 ratings — published 2002
Art and Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as art-practice)
avg rating 3.77 — 105,819 ratings — published 1994
How to Draw: Drawing and Sketching Objects and Environments from Your Imagination (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,207 ratings — published 2012
Figure Drawing for All It's Worth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as art-practice)
avg rating 3.97 — 24,644 ratings — published 1943
The War of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as art-practice)
avg rating 3.97 — 120,469 ratings — published 2002
Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing From Life: Over 1,000 Illustrations (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.10 — 5,812 ratings — published 1971
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-practice)
avg rating 3.94 — 442,074 ratings — published 1972
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-practice)
avg rating 3.96 — 341,599 ratings — published 2012
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-practice)
avg rating 3.87 — 382,274 ratings — published 1979
Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.08 — 62,228 ratings — published 2014
Classical Painting Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.44 — 453 ratings — published 2007
Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,973 ratings — published 2006
The Natural Way to Draw (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.00 — 64,302 ratings — published 1941
The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,982 ratings — published 1940
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.00 — 132,734 ratings — published 1993
Color and Light: A Guide for the Realist Painter (Volume 2) (James Gurney Art)
by (shelved 5 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.08 — 19,813 ratings — published 2010
Creative Illustration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,279 ratings — published 1947
Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,793 ratings — published
Interaction of Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as art-practice)
avg rating 3.91 — 15,737 ratings — published 1963
ART/WORK: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career
by (shelved 4 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,265 ratings — published 2009
Hawthorne on Painting (Dover Art Instruction)
by (shelved 4 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.15 — 532 ratings — published 1960
Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,498 ratings — published 2020
Alla Prima II: Everything I Know About Painting - and more (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.67 — 309 ratings — published 2013
Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,299 ratings — published 2021
Constructive Anatomy: Includes Nearly 500 Illustrations (Dover Anatomy for Artists)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,206 ratings — published 1920
Daily Painting: Paint Small and Often To Become a More Creative, Productive, and Successful Artist (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,503 ratings — published 2014
The Elements of Color: A Treatise on the Color System of Johannes Itten Based on His Book the Art of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,997 ratings — published 1961
Pen and Ink Drawing: A Simple Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.53 — 868 ratings — published
Anatomy for the Artist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,786 ratings — published 2001
Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,776 ratings — published 1964
Trust the Process: An Artist's Guide to Letting Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 3.90 — 864 ratings — published 1998
Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist (Volume 1) (James Gurney Art)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.12 — 8,546 ratings — published 2009
The Practice and Science of Drawing (Dover Art Instruction)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,945 ratings — published 1913
Alla Prima: Everything I Know About Painting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,212 ratings — published 1998
The Blank Canvas: Inviting the Muse (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.09 — 108 ratings — published 1993
The Artist's Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 3.97 — 339 ratings — published 2009
Bird by Bird (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.24 — 112,283 ratings — published 1994
Picture This: How Pictures Work (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,960 ratings — published 1991
Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.42 — 738 ratings — published 1973
Drawing the Head and Figure: A How-To Handbook That Makes Drawing Easy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.03 — 10,809 ratings — published 1962
The Art Spirit (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-practice)
avg rating 3.86 — 27,469 ratings — published 1929
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-practice)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,625 ratings — published 1973
Memory Drawing: Perceptual Training and Recall (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-practice)
avg rating 3.82 — 22 ratings — published 2013
Mastering Composition: Techniques and Principles to Dramatically Improve Your Painting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.41 — 444 ratings — published 2007
Morpho: Anatomy for Artists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.57 — 405 ratings — published 2017
Framed Ink (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,075 ratings — published 2010
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,827 ratings — published 1967
You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.11 — 668 ratings — published 2020
The Creative Act: A Way of Being (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-practice)
avg rating 3.95 — 89,419 ratings — published 2023
How to Render: the fundamentals of light, shadow and reflectivity (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-practice)
avg rating 4.61 — 295 ratings — published 2012
“At different times I've worked in different mediums. For me, the variation is not an artistic judgment, but a necessary choice. It's just as normal to eat with chopsticks, as it is to eat with forks or hands. Different circumstances call for different tools. I try to express ideas with the most appropriate available materials and forms. Very often the medium comes first, and then my reasons for it. Sometimes, I work with a medium I don't like out of curiosity. It is an experiment to challenge my pre-existing concepts and tastes. I've taken hundreds and thousands of photographs, and it's not because I like the medium. I wanted something to parallel my daily activities, and photography is the most logical way of doing that. I filmed documentaries because the medium reflects real conditions the most completely. I don't think artists should only work with what is handiest and most familiar, because the unfamiliar provides a challenge, and it creates another language. It defines the condition for new possibilities.”
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